AWFUL HOUR OF AGONY THE SHOCKING ELECTROCU- TION OF A MURDERER. The Dynamo at Auburn (N. Y.) Pris. on Failed to Work—The Cone demned Removed From the Chair, Second Time Exposed and for a to the Current. The execution, in Auburn (N. ¥.) Peniten. tiary, of William G. Taylor, the colored m who murdered a fellow convict in the prison The first the nn there. was a horrible affair, con tact did not cause of the machinery death, and breaking delayed for over an hour, The victim of tha 1 muscular fellow, ne powerful fra: houtaw self in the s straps were ad and while the orrible tragedy was a arly six foot tall, and of had no fear of death, and ed to the chairand placed torture, ul y the ant was turnad vis 1820 volt it was the with how ranged was it { the parent MIrS ORITIONG placed i alectri life whi wns after he anteroon time he den WAS ACO is tact was of a the prrent was shut oft t life The usaal tests wore was pronounced dead boon spent in the killing. MINERS minute & pple Over an Train. soone, Towa, had a visit from 150 Colorado ninors on their way East. They captured the Chicago & Northwestern fast freight at Counatl Bluffs and took possession The railroad company made no effort to tject them, but carried them on. The city suthoritien were notified that the men were soming, and, further, that they were hungry, saving had nothing to eat since the day be- lore, Arrangements were promptly made 10 give thom a meal, and when they arr ved shout 1 o'slock they were fod on the ground east of the roundhonse, The men were nearly famished, They wore an orderly set and took the first train out, the rallrond company permitting them ta cide, EATING UP FORESTS. Timber Worms Destroy the Trees In Two Townships, Capitalists of Portland, Oregon, owning timber along the Hoquiam River, in Chehalis County, Washington, are groatly worried over reports that a small measuring worm has made its appenrancs in myriads in that section snd is devastating the forest, The great fir, sprace and hemlook trees are alike suffpring. J. H, Baker, of Montesano, one of the most capable and rcliabie timber men Ia the Stile, asserts the worm is destroying a teat of timber equal 10 two whole town. ships the Hoquiam River, Squats Dark | White, ¥ dos Flour LATER NEWS, Tir date of the first rac Sup, off New York Harhe ober bth, for the the Brooklyn Pagsinents of fork and he adoption of a hirty-day nothee on all withdrawal yosits under $300 and of sixty day anounts Fourgst fires carried destruction he cranberry bogs and farm finr y, \ It Washington Farnace had been totally villages WneetLen Meoxico, Mo,, charged wi laughter, At the Wheeler testified that, and smothered Ronrent wang the noise Le Pras A. J THE MARKETS. Wholesale Prices Quoted of New Late Produce in Yor A AKT State and Por Wester b Da = gts Du pa Went Gees Pig: ka Turkeys, ¥ 0 Chickens, Phila Wostorn, PR Fowls--9., and West Pucks Fair to laney, Eastern, ¥ I Spring, L.L.,.# Govan. Western, ¥ Ih, ¥ dos hh CL YREOETABLES, Potatoes # bbl Yirginia, Rose, ¢@ bbl N. C.. Bose, ¥ bbl L. L. in bulk, ¥ bbl State | Cabbmge, L. L,¥ 100 ‘ Onions Eastern, yellow, bbl, Marviand, ¥ bol... 00000 State, Pb, ciiienin Pons, L. L, ¥ bag . . | Cucumbers, Norfolk, ¥ bh String beans, 1. 1, ¥ bag. Asparagus, doz, bunches. | Tomatoes, near hy, ¥ orate GRAIN, BTC, Oty Mill Extra. o.oo Patents. .......cone Wheat, No, 2 Red Ryo-8talo,..... ..coonmm Barley ~Two-rowed Kinte.. .. Corn—Ungmded White. .... Ounts~No, I White... Mixed Western... ...covvoes Hay Good to Choloe....... Straw-Long Rye... cove 0 p Lard City Bont. .evues. oe D000 @ LIYE STOCK, Beooves, Olty dressed... ..... t@ Mileh Cows, com, to 200d. ...30 00 Calves, Clty dressed. ....,ccv 9 Shosp. ¥1 Deseeossnunsnn 500 Lambs, #1... .oieeveis H Live ¥ 100 Me,...... 680 EEE EEE EE EEE RR LAA Beans Tr TRE LL Conntry Kk. -3 = “Ha LS [8882 | 8 a & E8853 | of threa years old and the baby. | supposing his wifo was sleeping also | an hour later he was awakened by groans, { throat, | diad an hour lator THE LABOR WORLD. | Nosrox has 1000 female printers, C anrexTEns have unions in 726 towns. Lowest (Mass) spinners will establish ta | library. | Arpaxy's Mayor vetoed the nine hour or- dinance, Uxtox carpenters wages re ach 85,500,000 - 000 a year. Bosrox carpenters work eight hour November 1, Burre C:7¥ $4.00 a day. after (Montana) carpenters got MrLpovnse, Australie, has Chinese furni- ture workers A THIRD Of Mich. are idle A Nasuvirve (Tenn,) boarding house 18 union men oniy, the mechanics in Detroit, for | CLEVELAND (Ohio) steel workers have been cut twenty per cent, the AMERICAN delegates will attend Congress at Zuricl Lanon Dax Saturday ix in Pennsylvania i September Fue living skeletons in the are said to be organizing. I'ne silver panie has among the laboring o 0 either a arbitration, y pald Jow | \ » rel ther New Englan I — TO COVER CRIME. A Father Suspected Wile 4 of Murdering His and Two Little Girls, # the mo A Inrre Jn neigh On the with bl i. a near Y pres foot of the Hoor n disorder, showing tha rr wore broken iv every of Smaua It is reg that } hor : wos with the BOD tie Pell Nelght hie food. Jealousy was t A MOTHER'S DOUBLE CRIME. Cut Her Baby's An With a Razor and Then Cut Her Own. Mrs, Henry May mut her throat with her husband's rasor and cut the throat of oid baby, Maybach f& a harness maker, and ls o thrifty young man with a good business and con siderable property. His wife was a handsome woman, accomplished, and a general favorite in the village, They had two shildren, a girl For several days the baby kad been teothing and very iretful and in poor health, and the mother had been greatly concerned for it, At about 3 o'slock, a m., while 8 heavy (hander storm was in progress, Mrs, May bao awakened her husband to assist her with the baby It was only restless, and a fow min- utes afterward Maybach fell asleep again, About In Clarence Contras, N, ¥ bach, twonty-asven years f age, her seven<months girl and sprang out of bed just in time to see his wife ranning out of the door into the street with blood gushing from a great gash in her Looking for the baby he found it in the baby carriage with ita throat eut from sar to sar. He followed his wife into the stroot, where he found her with the razor #11 In her hand, but se weak from the Joss of blood that she wi beyond recovery, She The baby wae also dead, The woman left a note saying that she fearad that her baby was going to die, and that she could not boar to live without it, and asking that all of her property be given to her little three-year-old daughter, Ir Is reported that fae great American lunch basket has some Rar Anat the bottem out of the restaurant sonocessionaries at the World's Fair, and they threaten that unless the directory remit the twenty-five will be compelled to close up alto, | the revolutionary uprising. PEALE yp Kd THE NATIONAL GAME. PuiLApELrHiA is baseball crazy, Citoago has tried clevem pitchers this | Fourixo the ball frequently will weary the t pitcher, Duryy, of lends the League in nnmber of Boston, hits, Doyre, of New York, Is one of the tility men in the Leagu fur Baltimores won ten of their nes with the Brooklyns., Sixce (ilasscock joined the Pittsbutes the: been winning steadily, Bre reo off for pitcher bse Paget twelve gn have " Tiny kiyns are wo than any of the League clubs, Tur major League raid on the 16 is u wide-spread one vis has occupied every place | order this year excepting « triple plays have been made this year by Pittsburg, Broo PROMINENT PEOPLE. Pars of Prince Miss Exiny Lot Conn., wh Roclety of the Daughters fs the last I ta has boon ol vi fs ret therwisn gifts for santing he % mt on entertalomon charitable institutions and (he poor in part the = have sf Rey. Jort.Swanrz, DD. D James's Lutheran Penn... who has 700 widely soattered bers in his congregation, thinks nothing doing his tenn miles on a bieyele In prosecn. ting his pastoral duties, though he is seventy yoars ok Tax Mabarajah of Kapurthals ne woalth is as extensive as his name, is aston. fshing the people of New York, where he has stopped on his way to tho World's Fair, by appearing in public wearing bracelets of poaris as large as pigeon’s eggs and heavy nooklnoes of diamonds and emeralds. Other wise he is a sensible young man Tux Rev, Thomas Mezley, who died a few days ago, was the oldest and best leader writer in the world, For many years he pastor Chureh (i wh | wrote the leading editorials of the London Times, and while this was known to only a | small oirale, the result was that he became one of the foremost men in England. Yet, | during his long lite he never signed his name to an article, Guesenar Dosixios Vasquez, who is now the most prominent figure in Central Amerios, owing to his position us commander-in-chiet | of the Government foroes In Honduras, is a | lawyer by profession and knew nothing of | the trade of war until ealled to the front by His iron rale of the country has shown that he possesses gen- wine wmilimry genius, ——" I Tar ie of Derlin do not mean to allow opie Re suffer for Inok of dus preparation oy moet disease In the coming summer--if money, carefully spent, oan accomplish that desirable end, authorities haw ap- Joan than $1,144,750 for t GEE TRE Sea | CASUALTIES ON'THE RAIL] STRUCTIVE ACCIDENTS, A Mall Train Derailed and Two Pos, tal Clerks Kiiled Wrecked Passengers Injured Killed Excursion and Thirty Frelghtmen Other Accidents. A chain of rallw | { 3 sualtios oo the same day in different parts of try characterized by were the passengers injured and property dost: yod rathe ber of killed, PUEBLO Cloudburst 1A stroys x freioht tra i an Engl mder the engin ily lojured. TRIPLE TRAGEDY. Teanessee Plenle Costs Lives. A Fight at a ree 3 I TESTS WITH EMMENSITE. It is Sald to be Even More EfMcient Than Melinite, The ordnance officers of the United Army are making some inter high explosives at S8andy Hook, N. J. sting fliied with gun cotton and with emmonsite wore fired from the twelve-dnch mortars The purpose was to demonstrate that this aonild be done without danger of explosion in the gun, and the tests were convincing upon that point, The emmensite shell charge of oightyseven p and of further trials that will be made 10 find a sroper fuse are suboesaful the Army and Rs will have securad an more efficient than the famed melicite French artillery. earried a bursting INS, explosive I" SUICIDES IN PARIS. Over 8000 People Killed Themselves in the French Capital Last Year. After an unpreosdented delay the French Government has issoed the oficial report of the Administration of Criminal Justice for the yoar 1801, The chapter devoted to the subjost suicides gives the total namber of acts cf pelf-destruction as S180, or twentfone tw every 100,000 inhabitants, an increase of twonty-filve per cent, over 1881, Seventy. eight per osnt, of the suicides are male, and | hanging was chosen by over ball of the total of £ CHAIN OF FATAL AND DE- | A World's Falr | | ing gone to Macedonis "hen wdd the even of the SABBATH SCHOOL, aL 2 vos INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 6, “Paul 22-35 Golden Heb, xiif., 7% Commentary. Lesson Text Acts xx., Text. at Miletus, And ne the ethings fete 22 w behold go bound ir spirit unt Jerusalem, nu thint shall befall me thes FL Kw Paul at Ephesu hve the nis, threes after far us ther 1 hig we now way grh Las astening to be 3 : [rR jlo by Pentecost Miletus on their hou to Ephesus t hin proar, whi went os nonths and to Je Grow roped han nay wna and if irely 20, J Tr * theirs . them, hough though seessnd ¥ BOVe them, their glad added . Wak woatise it was just sO n pocount in heaven “You, ye yourselves bands bave ministered unto and to them that were with whon the false teachers w ome, seeking theirs and not them, only wanting make something out of them, not earing for their souls, they could say Thus did not Paul. He never asked us for anything lor himself,” See further instruction upon this point in IX Thess, 1. % 25. “I have showed you all things, how that #0 laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lond Jesus. how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive,” It is not § soorded that Jesus ever sald just theses words, so that possibly Paal has here given Us some of the anrscorded words of Jesus, This prineciph Jowaver. was certainly in His teaching ory prominent (Luke vi 80. xiv, 18, I) =~ Losson Helper A VINCENNES woman “playfully® especially ach that these necessities Therefore now my me uld a3 | pointed a target rifie at her 16-year old-daughter; the gun grasped the | coveted opportunity, so to speak, and the poor girl 1s suffering with a wounded kpee. Seems as if a woman old enough to have a 16-yearold daughter ought to have more sense. 11 is otten saddening to note how hard it is for some young men to keep their seats on horseback and how easy It is in a crowded car.—Wash- ington Star. IT sometimes eps «+ up in the world to fall in with the ~Boston Courier. tL man.
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